'clear views' blog

"Degrading who we are, one billboard at a time" (January 2023)

Guest opinion by Susan Dennen / The Sun Chronical (Attleboro, MA)

https://www.thesunchronicle.com/opinion/columns/guest-column-degrading-who-we-are-one-billboard-at-a-time/article_8e01e580-09cd-518b-83a9-1301b7e9dae3.html

"Should Billboard Advertising Be Banned?"  (BBC September 8, 2022)

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62806697

Why are there so many billboards? (April 2022)

ABC 4 Digital Exclusive on Scenic Utah's work.

https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/why-are-there-so-many-billboards-in-utah/

St. George News on why our Photo Contest helps promote scenic preservation

https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2022/08/10/tsb-nonprofit-scenic-utah-opens-1st-annual-photo-contest-to-fight-utah-visual-pollution/#.YxjXP3bMLOg

City Weekly Photo Contest Blurb:  "Airspace Ad Space"

https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/mansplaining-mayhem/Content?oid=18770291

City Weekly 'Urban Living' article about Scenic Utah
https://www.cityweekly.net/UrbanLiving/archives/2022/08/24/scenic-utah

"The Growing Global Movement to End Outdoor Advertising" (EqualTimes, January 2020)

https://www.equaltimes.org/the-growing-global-movement-to-end#.YxoJxXbMJPY

Great op-ed in The Deseret News: "Is it Time to Ban Billboards?" 

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2020/10/13/21513237/guest-opinion-utah-outdoor-advertising-billboards-ban-natural-beauty-distracted-driving

        (...Reagan Outdoor Advertising's reply) https://websites.godaddy.com/en-US/editor/e6e3f4e7-f682-48d5-a88c-32da94803112/84614643-05aa-457c-9496-ba83ebc4c434/edit/450f166e-d0e5-433d-8040-d42c77c2d78a/mutator/card/0

Utah governor signs billboard-friendly legislation

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/03/14/utah-lawmakers-embraced-billboard-friendly-legislation-with-the-yes-votes-more-likely-to-come-from-those-who-took-industry-donations/

 Editorial: Mayor Biskupski is conspicuously silent on Billboard bill https://www.buildingsaltlake.com/editorial-mayor-biskupski-conspicuously-silent-billboard-bill/

Cities say big-donor billboard firms push sneaky bill to allow bigger, lighted displays without local OK https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/02/19/cities-say-big-donor-billboard-firms-push-sneaky-bill-to-allow-bigger-lighted-displays-without-local-ok/ 

High Country News: Billboard corporations use money and influence to override your vote

https://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/44.1/billboard-corporations-use-money-and-influence-to-override-your-vote?b_start:int=2

Southern Utah town has starring role in dark-sky movement

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5133034&itype=CMSID

Orem restricts electronic billboards

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2058318&itype=CMSID

Ralph Becker Op-Ed: Billboard legislation represents the worst of Utah politics

https://www.deseret.com/2018/2/24/20640609/ralph-becker-billboard-legislation-represents-the-worst-of-utah-politics

Letter: Utah billboards are a form of visual junk

http://www.standard.net/Letters/2018/03/30/Utah-billboards-letter-Francis

Letter: Utah views obscured by politics and billboards

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3979237&itype=CMSID

Meet Ralph Becker: a public advocate for America the Beautiful

http://www.scenic.org/blog/263-meet-ralph-becker-a-public-advocate-for-america-the-beautiful

Lawmakers to consider 'Grand Boulevard' entrances to Salt Lake City from I-15

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=39824931

How outdoor advertising can deepen inequality 

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200817-the-inequality-of-outdoor-advertising-exposure